Virginia Prince Trans Interest Zine "TV Clip Sheet", Aggregating Stories of Cross-Dressing and Gender Variance, Four Issue Archive 1960s-70s

Virginia Prince TV Clip-Sheet

Periodical

Prince, Virginia. TV Clip-Sheet. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications ca. late 1950s or early 1960s to 1970s. Four issues. TV Clip Sheet was a trans interest zine which gathered scanned articles on transgender celebrity, cross dressing, and gender nonconformity in the years following new international trans visibility achieved by Christine Jorgensen. These issues, produced in Los Angeles, gathers human interest stories and newspaper photography documenting visibly trans and gender non-conforming individuals with headlines including “The Amazing Dilemma of Kenneth Johnson,” “Men Were Girls!,” “This Beautiful Gal, Her ‘Girl’ Pal Was Really a Man,” “He Got Idea From Mother,” “Hubby - Jailed for Having Two Wives - Is a Woman,” and “The Lady Is an Undercover Man.” TV Clip Sheet is not a conventional magazine but rather an independently distributed digest of clipped and reassembled stories produced by trans activist and publisher Virginia Prince, demonstrating how queer communities circulated documentation of trans femininity and cross-dressing to encourage community support and visibility.

TV Clip-Sheet. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, ca. late 1950s- early 1960s to 1970s. Archive of four issues: Nos. 4, 5, 9, and 38.

[1] TV Clip-Sheet. No. 4. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, ca. 1959. Includes “The Amazing Dilemma of Kenneth Johnson,” a large feature on Kenneth Johnson, plus additional clippings headed “This Beautiful Gal, Her ‘Girl’ Pal Was Really a Man,” “Women’s Clothes Were His Disguise,” “The Model Who Fooled London,” and “A Feminine Man.”
[2] TV Clip-Sheet. No. 5. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, circa 1960s. Includes “American Male Has Donned Ugly Look,” “Men Were Girls!,” and additional small clippings on masculine and feminine appearance.

[3] TV Clip-Sheet. No. 9. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, circa 1960s. Includes “He Got Idea From Mother,” “Hubby - Jailed for Having Two Wives - Is a Woman", and "Court Offers Youth, 19, Chance for Sex Surgery".

[4] TV Clip-Sheet. No. 38. Los Angeles: Chevalier Publications, circa 1970s. Includes “The Lady Is an Undercover Man,” “Here’s the Oddest Turn in Showbiz!,” “Mr. or Should I Say Mrs. La Rue Adds a Touch of Culture,” and clippings on stage performers, disguise, and theatrical impersonation.

TV Clip-Sheet collected outside press coverage on trans identity, secrecy, and public curiosity. The repeated newspaper language of masquerade, disguise, “really a man,” and “undercover man” records the terms through which American popular media framed cross dressing before later transgender vocabulary gained wider public circulation. Folded as issued with light toning, minor edge wear, and handling creases; overall good condition. A compact run of Chevalier’s serial preserving the press record that surrounded, distorted, and publicized cross dressing and female impersonation in mid century American print.

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